In the big picture, all the mating and morphing flows on the largest system that surrounds us, the Earth itself, evolve to enhance global flow.

It reflects and makes use of the increasingly global flow of information, ideas, and peoples.

For Appadurai the imaginary is composed of five dimensions of global cultural flow:

The growth of global flows and its connection with new anxieties in emerging countries.

The 21st century will be convulsed by vast global flows of labour and capital.

Can the global flow of information and images penetrate the defenses of a rigid old oligarchy?

But now our foreign policy depends largely on global flows of money, and our apparatus for influencing them is almost totally removed from democratic oversight.

Yes, there are global economic flows and everyone can hum the soundtrack of Titanic.

Japan's current economic woes reflect the limits of national monetary policy in moving an economy, particularly in this age of global financial flows.

"The border is a checkpoint in a world of global flows."